Done something in Clinical you weren't supposed to?

[tammytwochains]

Hey all,

So today in Clinical, my instructor let my clinical group and I do some stuff that we aren't really supposed to do yet but we all really wanted to lol. Have you other nursing students out there ever done something in clinical that your instructor let you do but you weren't really supposed to yet??

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

If your clinical instructor allowed it then "we weren't supposed to" does not apply. Presumably she or he was supervising you and using clinical judgment as to what she or he was comfortable taking responsibility for.

[HermioneG, BSN, RN]

Im curious what this is exactly that you're not supposed to do but were allowed to do? haha

[Banana nut, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I once needle criqued an infant in the er during clinical rotations.....they said I should have waited for the doc to intubate.

[RotorRunner]

I once needle criqued an infant in the er during clinical rotations.....they said I should have waited for the doc to intubate.

Lol. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this.

[SouthernBelle85]

You were probably allow to do it as a student nurse but you probably weren't there in your curriculum yet. Unless it was something outside the scope of practice for your level as the nurse your are studying for like I was a LPN student and couldn't push meds because the hospital policy was that LPN's weren't allow to...even if my board says I can...RN board says I can't.

[nalie2, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN, NP]

Well mine is not nearly as interesting as the Noctor_Durse, but during first semester I was asked to do a urine specimen collection from a foley bag with my clinical instructor observing me. That was a second semester thing.

I'm really curious to know what your instructor let you do... Do tell.

[Banana nut, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

Well mine is not nearly as interesting as the Noctor_Durse, but during first semester I was asked to do a urine specimen collection from a foley bag with my clinical instructor observing me. That was a second semester thing.

I'm really curious to know what your instructor let you do... Do tell.

I was just kidding! :)

[nalie2, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN, NP]

I was just kidding! :)

Oh thank god. Sarcasm does not come across well through text for me. Lol!!

[Dormi93, RN]

The only thing that I've ever done in clinical that wasn't what we should have done was I had a developmentally delayed patient that I was passing around 12 meds to. He was noncommunicative and after he threw his first set of pills on the floor (among other things during the med pass) we decided to hold the meds until later. We documented and we also documented that we gave the remaining pills to the staff RN. Well one of the remaining was a class II drug (phenibarbitol maybe? all I remember is it was an anticonvulsant). We were written up about a month later by the pharmacy and had to speak with the hospital liaison about the situation.

LT;DR: Don't ever give a med to another nurse if you withdrew it from the pyxis (even if its the patients nurse). The document trail leads to you.

what was the worst part was that the liaison emailed me and the nursing school coordinator and just said, "speak about the situation that occured" I thought I did something absolutely terrible and was about to be kicked from the program.